Apple watch talk to text not working

Discovered this solution accidentally as well during the last of 2 unhelpful and lengthy calls to support. Like you said, just swipe up from the bottom and tap Scribble and everything returns to normal. I have to do this with EVERY conversation thread though, and there's no guarantee the settings will stick. Support couldn't even tell me if this was a bug or a new feature. I never had this problem before updating.

Thanks! I found it. Yeah…so much easier with the extra steps!😵‍💫. The voice memo should be 2nd choice not first. Thanks Apple.

I have been using the dictation (mic button) for a long time now to send text messages from my watch just like in the video shared by Digsadventure. Now after update no mic button at all...gone nothing there.

When I try to text now a message pops up on my phonne saying apple watch keyboard Keyboard input. Enter text on your apple watch using your IOS keyboard. Press to type.

Dictation is enabled.... again it was working great for a long long time now this. I even reset the watch erasing all but same no button at all

I am having issue no matter what message I select.

I have a series 6 44mm and watchOS 8.3

When I'm reviewing the message only options I see under the latest text is the iMessage where you go and either draw a message or hit microphone in the bottom right, to the left of the is the triangle that brings up animojis and ability to send a sound message with a bunch of other options. Under the iMessage and triangle are a bunch of suggested reply's then share location button and contact details.

The only place I see I can reply is to tap the iMessage box, when I do I get

I have tried a full erase reboot both iPhone and watch. Not sure what else to do :/

Side note though.... I can say Hey Siri, then tell her to send a text and that's the only way I can respond to texts other than using the suggested text buttons.

So i figured it out. when your screen goes blank and there's no microphone or the field to scribble, swipe up from the bottom of the screen, click scribble and everything will operate as normal. let me know if it worked for you, i found the solution on a fluke.

Mine is the same. No microphone icon either. So frustrating. I can send a voice memo text but I don’t want that. Wish Apple would stop fixing things to the point where they remove the stuff we use. Hopefully someone can help us soon.

So I found it…. When you want to talk into watch…. Scroll until you see “ reply message” box and click on it. Then the microphone is there. The new update really screwed it ip but it’s there!!

good luck

Like everyone else it was driving me insane. My friend works for Apple he is one of the senior advisors and when i explained it to him he had no idea what i was talking about lol i knew if he didn't know i was screwed calling support. i was sitting here reading all of your posts and somehow figured it out. i believe it's definitely connected to the new update. I'm sending this thread to my friend so he can get this on their radar that we have a credible issue. happy holidays everyone I'm so glad we figured this out together.

so I can confirm that swiping up did bring up the option to tap scribble as well. I do have to do it for every conversation, but it would appear that it does stick and there is no need to swipe up and hit scribble. It's weird though because it appears that at least for me, only the messages app is affected. Messenger app from Facebook does not have this problem. I can scribble or tap microphone icon in bottom right without having to swipe up first.

OK, I just do not see anything that says Reply Message. It would be really helpful if Apple would at least talk to people before foisting these 'improvements' which destroy something that was working well! All I see is the crossed A which takes me to a voice memo...beyond useless! The Suggestions only give canned text replies. Aaarrrggghhh!

I am having the same issue, is there fix to this to enable talk to text on the apple watch after the update?

Same. No microphone option at all, but only on some messages. On Sms responses it's there. On iMessage it's not there.

Do you have dictation enabled?

From your iPhone>Watch>General>Enable Dictation>Toggle this on

Since last update 15 … my talk to text is not working on Apple Watch! Microphone icon is not even showing up.

I’ve checked everything and restarted both

No one has answered… still can’t talk to text on Apple watch